Douglas B-23 Dragon: American Medium Bomber

Douglas B-23 Dragon US Army Air Corps.

The Douglas B-23 Dragon is an American twin-engined bomber developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company as a successor to the B-18 Bolo. 

The B-23s were primarily relegated to training duties, although 18 of them were later converted as transports and redesignated UC-67.

Douglas B-23 Dragon (39-27 c/n 2713) US Army Air Corps.

A B-23 is in the background of this wartime poster encouraging production workers.

Douglas B-23 Dragon. (Preliminary Handbook of Service Instructions for the Model B-23 Bombardment Airplane, T.O. No. 01-40EC-2. Datyon, Ohio: Materiel Division, Field Service Section, Wright Field, 1940)
 

 Douglas B-23 Dragon.

Douglas B-23 Dragon tail code 63 10AB of the 10th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron (later 10th Air Base Group).

 Douglas B-23 Dragon aerial pick-up test over a CG-3A glider on April 28, 1943.

 Douglas B-23 Dragon tail code 94 MD in flight. Assigned to the Materiel Division at Wright Field.

A USAAF Douglas B-23 Dragon (s/n 39-03?) dropping a bomb during a training flight in the U.S. in 1942. (Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division ID fsa.8b13103)

Douglas B-23 Dragon.

 Douglas RB-23 of the USAAF, taken at Bicycle Lake, Calif. whilst assigned to Muroc Lake Army Air Base, 7 October 1942.

Douglas B-23 Dragon tail code 94 MD in flight. Assigned to the Materiel Division at Wright Field.

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